AUSTIN, Texas (AP) — A federal judge’s rebuke of Texas housing prisoners in lockups without air conditioning stopped short of ...

The Texas State Penitentiary at Huntsville, or Huntsville Unit, opened in 1849, and houses Texas' execution chamber. Two-third of state-run jails and prisons in Texas are not fulled air conditioned.

The case was brought by Bernie Tiede, a 65-year-old former inmate who sued TDCJ over conditions in his Huntsville cell ... as ...

A federal judge has found the extreme heat in Texas prisons that don’t have air conditioning is “plainly unconstitutional.” ...

In Louisiana, a group of men incarcerated at a state penitentiary this week ... outdoors during the hot summer outside a Texas prison unit in Huntsville, Texas, on June 25, 2015.

The five bills that would require complete air conditioning in state prisons haven’t had a hearing yet, and the money set for ...

Dominick, the Texas Prisons Community Advocates founder, said she’s concerned that the rate at which TDCJ prisons are filling is outpacing the rate at which the state agency is installing air co ...

State lawmakers did not put any money directly towards air conditioning prisons ... in a Huntsville cell where temperatures exceeded 110 degrees. The new filing expanded the plaintiffs to include ...

a group of men incarcerated at a state penitentiary this week again asked a federal judge to take steps to protect prisoners doing outdoor agricultural labor in dangerous heat. “Texas is the ...